Harness for breaking and training horses.



PATENTBD JAN. 13, 1903.

M r 6 3 m i w I w. n. CARSON. HARNESS FOR BREAKING AND-TRAINING- HORSES. j

APPLICATION FILED DEO. 18, 1901.

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n4: Monm: PEYERS my. rno'rourua. wnsumorcu n c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM DAVID CARSON, OF CENTRALIA, ILLINOIS.

HARNESS FOR BREAKING AND TRAINING HORSES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 718,425, dated January 13, 1903. 7 Application filed December 18, 1901. Serial No. 86,470. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM DAVID CAR- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oentralia, in the county of Marion and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Harness for Breaking and Training Horses, of which the following is a specification. Y

The invention relates to a harness con, structed for the purpose of breaking and training horses to carry their heads, at a proper angle.

The object of my invention is to train a horse to carry his head at a graceful and proper pose and angle without the use of the ordinary overcheck and to prevent the horse from tossing his head upand down or carrying his head to one side, as is frequently done by horses reined with the ordinary overcheck or side rein.

The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention, and the several parts thereof are numbered thereon and referred to in this specification by number.

The object of my invention is accomplished by means of a saddle 1, of wood or iron attached to a back-band 2 and fastened onto a horse by the ordinary girth 3. On each side of this saddle are four horizontal holes 4. Two metal rods 5, curved to conform with the arch of a horses neck, are adjusted with one end fastened to the bit-rings 6011 each side of the horses head and passing along the jowl and neck with the other ends entering into the holes in the saddle, held in place by set-screws 7, and arranged so that the'rods can be adjusted and the horses head raised or lowered, held in or out, by inserting the ends of said rods in either of said holes 4 and by shorteningor lengthening the same by sliding back' or forward through said holes and fastening the same in the desired position by said set-screws 7.

What'I claim as my invention, and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States, is

WILLIAM DAVID CARSON.

Witnesses:

W. L. Known, J. B. CHAMBERS. 

